Music for Psilocybin Therapy and the Temporal Arc of Psychedelic Experience
Juan Sebastián Gómez-Cañón, Carly Leininger, Danielle Mayall et al. preprint
Abstract Music plays a central role in psilocybin therapy (PT), where playlists are designed to be supportive and stimulating over a 4–6-hour psychedelic experience. The primary design principle underlying PT music programming is that music should be affectively aligned with the onset–peak–return model of pharmacodynamic action. However, in the absence of clear acoustic criteria, this framework...